Sure, this is a story of the wildness of YouTube videos and the daring role that Mawaan Rizwan’s mother, Shahnaz Rizwan, took on – but more than that, it’s a tale of Shahnaz’s life coming full circle. “At age 3 she made her film debut. Over the next decade, she told me, she went on to star in more than 30 black-and-white Pakistani films. By 12, she was supporting her family with her earnings. She was basically the Macaulay Culkin of Karachi. But when she was a teenager, she had to stop acting. People told her it was no profession for a young woman and that only prostitutes worked as actresses.”
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New York Built A Fifteen Million Dollar Film Hub
And then sold it for one dollar after the film hub, near Syracuse, didn’t quite do its job.
The Melissa McCarthy Puppet Movie Wins Its First Round Against ‘Sesame Street’
The movie, directed by one of Jim Henson’s sons, is a little different from the Sesame Street many of us know. “The trailer alone features violence, prostitution, drug use, and sexually graphic scenes. But none of that was the focus of the suit filed last week by Sesame Workshop, the educational nonprofit that produces Sesame Street.”
The Radical Subversion Of ‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’
“Today, four years after the series initially aired, telling stories about female survivors of sexual violence is more common, yet Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt still explores what it means to be a survivor in ways that are unique. …The explosion of angry women who are ready to shake up the status quo is a testament to a very real cultural mood. Yet the fantastic thing about Kimmy is how the show illustrates the ways that being a kind, feminine, do-gooder is just as badass as being a ball-buster … [and that] warmth, kindness and creativity are actually heroic attributes, rather than the relics of a girlhood that Kimmy never got to entirely experience.”
An Oral History Of The Muppets
“The last season [of The Muppet Show] aired in 1981, and Jim Henson died suddenly in 1990. But the Muppets and many of their human performers are still with us. Still, while they’ve returned to movies and television with various degrees of success since Henson’s death, no one’s yet managed to crack the code and find the success the Muppets once had. … For the latest installment in its Peabody-Award winning American Icons series, Studio 360 … looks at the origins, appeal and future of the Muppets.” (audio with transcript)
Are Viral Memes Losing Their Impact?
“People today are consuming more memes than ever. The expiration date for them has shortened more since even last year. Memes used to last for two to three weeks, but recently we’ve noticed they die after just a few days.”
Praise ABC For Booting Roseanne, But It Had A Reboot Problem Before It Had A Problem
It is not new information that Roseanne Barr makes racist, Islamophobic and misogynistic statements and is happy to peddle all manner of dangerous conspiracy theories. ABC knew this when it greenlighted the “Roseanne” reboot. ABC knew this when it quickly renewed the reboot for a second season, buoyed, no doubt, by the show’s strong ratings.
ABC Cancels “Roseanne” After Star’s Racist Tweet
ABC’s cancellation announcement came hours after Barr announced she was “leaving” Twitter – again – after apologizing for calling former President Barack Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett an offspring of the “Muslim Brotherhood & Planet of the Apes.” Barr came back to Twitter about 5 minutes later to expand on her apology.
Movies Are More Like Religion Than You Think, And On A More Fundamental Level
“Both religion and cinema [involve] practices of community formation, the generation of meaning through myth and ritual, and the creation of a sacred space that contrasts with the everyday world.”
I Have No Control Over TV Version Of ‘Handmaid’s Tale’, And That’s Fine, Says Margaret Atwood
The author wants the people who are upset about how the series’s second season has diverged from her novel to relax: “It’s a television series. If you’re going to have a series you can’t kill off the central character and you also can’t have the central character escape to safety in episode one of season two. It’s not going to happen.”